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Behind the all-too-foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab-Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the
Palestinian
territories, and beyond.
According to the ruling Ba’ath Party’s dogma, Syria is being targeted because it will not capitulate, remaining steadfast to the Arab and
Palestinian
cause.
Indeed, democracy is fragile, at best, across North Africa; and, in the Middle East, Jordan, the
Palestinian
territories, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have only begun to feel the ripples of the tidal wave sweeping the region.
Netanyahu’s tactics also conveniently distract international attention from the
Palestinian
problem, which is coming to a head again.
Middle East IntegrationThe attempts now being made to revive the “road map” to a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the creation of a
Palestinian
state are at only a preliminary stage.
The recent international conference in London, aimed at supporting reforms in the
Palestinian
Authority and shoring up support for renewed negotiations with Israel, is one of those preliminary efforts.
It is difficult to see how any future American diplomacy based on this approach will attract
Palestinian
support.
Arab citizens of Israel – that is,
Palestinian
doctors and nurses – were treating Jewish and Arab patients.
Old Israelis who had clearly come from Eastern Europe before World War II were playing with very young
Palestinian
children.
Two days after my hospital experience, a tour of the
Palestinian
neighborhoods of Jerusalem – surrounded or divided by the security wall – served as a reminder of the region’s harsh and sobering realities.
Looking back at his career, Arafat never really veered from the belief that his life's mission was to destroy Israel by any means necessary and replace it with a
Palestinian
Arab state.
An independent
Palestinian
state that did not include all of Israel held no appeal to him.
If Arafat had taken this road - accepting Israel's existence, ending terrorism, and confronting
Palestinian
extremists - the conflict would have ended long ago.
Finally, there is the revolutionary Islamist vision espoused by Hamas, which seeks to continue fighting and using terrorism, regardless of how much time it takes and lives it costs, until it defeats both Israel and
Palestinian
secular nationalists.
The problem for
Palestinian
moderates is clear: any leader willing to agree a peace treaty with Israel would be opposed - passionately and even violently - by roughly 80% of the movement.
A key question is whether the
Palestinian
masses, fed up with their leadership's bickering, corruption, and incompetence, could make their wishes known to find an end to a conflict that has cost them so much.
Only if the post-Arafat movement decides that it really wants a
Palestinian
state in exchange for ending the conflict with Israel in every respect will there be a real chance of peace.
Arafat's death may well mark the beginning of that process, but the transition to a new
Palestinian
leadership could take years, and there is no assurance that it will be a moderate one.
Illiberal IsraelNEW YORK – After a half-century of occupying
Palestinian
territory, Israel is succumbing to its deepest ethnocentric impulses, and increasingly rejecting recognized boundaries.
The minister of education, Naftali Bennett – Chairman of the Jewish Home party, a key ally in Netanyahu’s far-right coalition and a leading advocate for annexing
Palestinian
lands – is now instructing schools that “studying Judaism is more important than math and science.”
A novel describing a love affair between a
Palestinian
boy and a Jewish girl has been banned from school curricula.
Whereas the West lost no time in imposing sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s Russia following its annexation of Crimea, it has not punished Israel’s occupation of
Palestinian
lands.
Post-Zionism is a much hyped phantom, a term flourished in the mid-1990’s, when it seemed that Israeli and
Palestinian
leaders were building a peace process.
The gravest problem for Middle Israel is the
Palestinian
predicament in the occupied West Bank and in deadlocked Gaza.
They erred gravely – and this is less often recognized – in discouraging the moderate
Palestinian
middle class, many of whom have quit the occupied territories, leaving behind a generation of young, ignorant, hungry, and angry warriors.
Jerusalem will be divided,
Palestinian
refugees will not return to their ancestral homes, and Jewish settlements in the West Bank will, like their Gaza counterparts, be dismantled or (inconceivably) left to fend for themselves.
For now, we in Middle Israel must curb our own extremists and hold out for the
Palestinian
moderates to prevail.
But the optimism produced by the Annapolis peace process, which included President George W. Bush’s promise of an agreement in 2008 to create a
Palestinian
state, was clearly unrealistic.
The
Palestinian
Arab state envisioned by the United Nations’ 1947 partition plan, which was to include Gaza, was never established.
Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing
Palestinian
refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.
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